"This classy memoir reads like a Who's Who of 20th-century science
and picks up where the author left off in his classic book, The
Double Helix. In 1953, Watson, then 25, and colleague Francis Crick
discovered the structure of DNA, a historic achievement that won
them both the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Here Watson,
who quickly became an icon for biology students worldwide, gives a
detailed, journal-writer's account of the aftermath...Reading
Watson is a delight, an opportunity to breathe the rarefied air of
his generation's greatest scientists and to crash a faculty
cocktail party or two along the way."
--Publisher's Weekly"This second autobiographical work by Nobel
prize winner Watson provides additional details of his personal
life and experience during and after his and Francis Crick's
discovery of the double helix as the model for DNA structure in
1953. . .Because of the wide appeal of The Double Helix and the
extensive publicity on current genetic research, this work will
likely be popular as well. Accessible to many levels of readers, it
is recommended for public and academic libraries."
--Library Journal
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